Nigeria has become the first country to roll out a “revolutionary” five-in-one vaccine against meningitis, the World Health Organization (WHO) said in a statement on Friday. ...
Many Palestinians in the Gaza Strip will be wondering how they are going to feed their families after World Central Kitchen (WCK) paused its operations in...
A team of medical experts from the World Health Organization (WHO), specializing in leprosy, will arrive in Sri Lanka in March, said Director of the Anti-Leprosy...
An Indian model has sparked an online backlash after revealing she had faked her death in an Instagram post as part of a cervical cancer awareness...
The number of new cancer cases globally will reach 35 million in 2050, 77 percent higher than the figure in 2022, according to predictions from the...
(Excerpted from Memories that linger: My journey through the world of disability by Padmani Mendis) Although I had carried out assignments for all the WHO Regional...
The World Health Organization (WHO) on Friday (22) issuing a new COVID-19 epidemiological update has said that globally, the number of new cases increased by 52%...
WHO MEDIA ADVISORY Due to its rapidly increasing spread, WHO is classifying the variant JN.1 as a separate variant of interest (VOI) from the parent lineage...
The World Health Organization (WHO) has asked Beijing for more information on an outbreak of mysterious pneumonia in northern China that appears mostly to be affecting...
By Prof. Susirith Mendis The 36th K.N. Seneviratne Oration will be held at the Facuty fo Medical Sciences, University of Sri Jayewardenepura on Saturday, November 18,...